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to: ALISTER
from: BOB PROHASKA
date: 2018-12-05 00:58:00
subject: Re: Misregistered desktop

Alister  wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:19:31 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>>
>>> Probably the best bet is to discover which desktop you're using and
>>> then
>>
>> I'm using whatever Stretch uses by default. Oddly enough, it's not
>> obvious what desktop that might be. I thought it would be lxde, but ls
>> -a in the home directory finds hidden directories for .gnome, .gnome2
>> and .gnome2-private, all of which are empty.
>>
>> Top reports lxpanel and lxterminal running, which I think _are_ lxde
>> programs,
>> but there's no other obvious hint.
>>
>> Thanks for reading, any clues appreciated!
>>
>> bob prohaska
>
> The latest Pi uses the Pixel desktop which i believe is simply a tweaked
> LXDE desktop https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel/, the
> reason for the gnome directories is IIRC LXDE uses the GTK toolkit
>
>
>
Thank you, I vaguely remember something about Pixel which I since forgot.
That gives me a starting point..

bob prohaska

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